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00:02:21.000So if you have a problem in El Salvador and these people are repeatedly terrorizing everyday citizens, then maybe we should go after them and not act as if they are victims because they are gangbangers that are shooting up soccer fields.
00:02:34.000It's an incredible article in the NEW YORK Times.
00:02:36.000El Salvador decimates its ruthless gangs, but at what cost?
00:02:41.000The whole article is a series of stories about how much life has changed in the country over the last year, and this is not something we talk a lot about.
00:02:49.000El Salvador it's, not exactly a lead nation.
00:02:53.000We do get a fair amount of illegal border jumpers from El Salvador, which is probably where we mention it the most, but now it says in the article that children are finally playing on soccer fields that used to be exclusively gang turf.
00:03:05.000Sounds like Chicago residents are able to park their cars without paying ten dollars a month to the gangs, which Which, by the way, is a lot in El Salvador.
00:03:14.000People can let their children play in public parks without worrying that they'll be hit by stray bullets.
00:03:43.000In 2015, El Salvador had 105 murders for every 100,000 people in the country.
00:03:52.000For comparison, that's a rate three times as high as bloody Chicago at the absolute peak of the crack cocaine crime wave and for the entire country.
00:04:03.000That's more than a one in a thousand chance of being murdered every single year for every person.
00:06:20.000Now, you have to use prudence and practical judgment.
00:06:23.000And people then say, I mean, this is how moronic people are because they go to college.
00:06:27.000They say, well, Charlie, how do you know when it's right to do it?
00:06:30.000I don't know when you have a murder rate where you have a chance of one in a thousand to get murdered.
00:06:33.000Probably a good idea to start cleaning up the streets.
00:06:37.000So the New York Times goes out of its way to dig up NGOs, non-governmental organizations, and professors who are moaning and complaining about what's happening in El Salvador.
00:06:51.000This person who's an El Salvador expert, I didn't know there was such a thing, at the Washington College in Maryland, quote, I remain incredibly pessimistic about what this means for the future of democracy in the region.
00:07:07.000Quote, the risk is that this becomes a popular model for other politicians.
00:07:30.000Or is she an expert from some sort of academic ivory tower?
00:07:35.000She can look at El Salvador, but she wouldn't actually live there.
00:07:39.000The risk, she says in the New York Times, is that this becomes a popular model for other politicians to say, quote, well, you could be providing you more security in exchange for giving you up some of your rights.
00:07:52.000Hey, Newsflash, you don't have a right to murder other people.
00:07:54.000You don't have a right to terrorize children.
00:07:57.000You don't have a right to be able to destroy an entire country.
00:08:00.000You don't have a right to occupy a sovereign country.
00:08:22.000At times, your society falls apart so much where you say, look, this is not exactly what we want, but we need to get our country safe again.
00:08:37.000By the way, what civil liberties are they talking about?
00:08:40.000The whole article is an overture to try to make you feel bad for the gang members, to try to make you as if the gang members are the victims.
00:08:49.000Defeating criminal gangs who run your country is a prerequisite to having civil liberties.
00:08:54.000In the state of nature, it's very hard to have civil liberties.
00:09:42.000By the way, just so we're clear, ever since BLM took over the country post-Floyda Palooza and the religion of anti-racism set in, U.S. children killed by guns jumped 50%.
00:10:11.000But the New York Times, it's a very interesting thing because in the same breath, the intelligentsia that reads the New York Times will say, it's bad that we lock up El Salvadorian gang members, but it's good that we lock up Donald Trump.
00:12:24.000All right, got to mobilize the armed forces, got to make that, which I believe was actually a whiskey rebellion, if I remember correctly.
00:12:30.000They actually have to try to restrict that activity.
00:12:33.000At times, you have to be able to use and be willing to use prudence, practical judgment, that the Greeks said is the ultimate governing virtue, besides courage.
00:12:47.000It takes a lifetime to develop prudence, studying the great works, understanding eternal knowledge.
00:13:28.000Because the New York Times finds it objectionable that you might go lock up a bunch of criminals in El Salvador and the ordinary person in El Salvador can now live freely.
00:13:37.000It's the exact same parasitic mind virus, idea pathogen, that gives us Seattle and gives us San Francisco and gives us Portland.
00:13:50.000Now, I got to be honest, I delight when I read articles like this, and you shouldn't delight in people's suffering.
00:13:58.000And I do go to Whole Foods from time to time.
00:14:43.000So while a third world country, El Salvador, has clean streets and crime goes down, 79% of Portland businesses report being vandalized by homeless and vagrants.
00:15:19.000The problem is that if we tried to clean up our streets right now in Los Angeles, right now in San Francisco, right now in Portland, right now in Chicago, if we executed a dragnet, which by the way, a majority of murders in Chicago go unsolved.
00:16:28.000We could solve these crimes, lack of political will.
00:16:30.000But what we do have the political will, we have the political will to have dozens of prosecutors go press charges against Donald Trump and the Manhattan DA.
00:16:42.000We have the political will to go put meme maker Douglas Mackey in prison.
00:16:46.000We have the political will to go raid James O'Keefe's home.
00:16:49.000We have the political will to raid Rudy Giuliani's home.
00:16:51.000We have the political will to go indict Dinesh D'Souza.
00:16:54.000We have the political will to go after Catholics.
00:16:56.000We have the political will to go raid Mar-a-Lago, which was probably approved by Joe Biden.
00:17:02.000We have the political will to go indict Steve Bannon, but we don't have the political will to mobilize the National Guard like they do in El Salvador to clean up our streets of the gangs.
00:18:02.000The FBI sought to develop sources in Catholic churches.
00:18:07.000Is it fair to say that possibly on Easter Sunday, the FBI had informants and plants at Catholic mass services across the country?
00:18:16.000It's a great question, Charlie, and we don't know.
00:18:18.000I mean, this sounds like something that's surreal, something that's made up, but we have the documents.
00:18:23.000We have whistleblowers within the FBI that have given us the information.
00:18:26.000And we know that the Richmond Field Office of the FBI, this is where it was originally begun, they sought to reach out to Catholic clergy and church leadership to recruit sources inside the churches so that they could monitor and report on their parishioners.
00:18:43.000It sounds Arwelian, but that's what the government is engaged in.
00:18:46.000The FBI generated this memo in the Richmond Field Office.
00:18:50.000It was distributed to field offices around the country.
00:18:53.000And Jim Jordan and I on the Web Position Committee and House Judiciary Committee are pursuing this vigorously because we are demanding answers to see how far and wide this went, how much damage was done.
00:19:04.000So, I mean, our audience is fired up over this and many other topics.
00:19:08.000An idea that has been floated is called fencing off the money, Congressman.
00:19:14.000Which, for example, you might say, okay, we might not be able to close the FBI, nor do I know if you know, they do some good work, obviously.
00:19:21.000But I mean, a lot of it should be shut down as a political operation.
00:19:24.000But fencing off the money would be something closer to, hey, all right, Christopher Ray, you used the private jet to go to the Adirondacks.
00:19:32.000That's going to be put on pause until we get actual answers and people are fired.
00:19:38.000Are these ideas being floated by you guys, you know, in House leadership at this time?
00:19:42.000Because at least that could put there the line items that the agency heads care about the most, and you actually might be able to get answers.
00:19:54.000We talked about it a couple weeks ago.
00:19:56.000You know, our hands are tied in some respect.
00:19:58.000We're just as frustrated as everybody else.
00:20:00.000Believe me, we've been chomping at the bit for the last couple of years to get a shot at this oversight, which is a critical constitutional responsibility that we have, as you know.
00:20:08.000But we just got a majority in January and we just got subpoena power later that month.
00:20:13.000And so we're only a couple of months, two, three months into this right now.
00:20:16.000We're ginning it up as quick as we can.
00:20:18.000Now, we can investigate, we can uncover these abuses and lay it bare for the American people to judge for themselves.
00:20:24.000And then ultimately, we have to reform these practices and abuses to make sure they never happen again.
00:20:30.000But the power of the purse is really the key function here.
00:20:33.000We don't have the ability to indict anyone to perk walk them, arrest them, put them on trial, but we can put them on trial in the court of public opinion and we can cut funding and limit funding, fence it off, as you say, for big priorities that they have if they cannot follow the basic tenets of the Constitution.
00:20:50.000I mean, this kind of stuff is just steamrolling right over the First Amendment.
00:20:54.000It's as if field agents and FBI leadership have no regard for that at all.
00:20:58.000And it's really, really scary and dangerous stuff.
00:21:03.000And I mean, we have real crimes that are happening in our country.
00:21:06.000I mean, crime is up from 80% of Portland businesses are reporting that they've experienced vandalism through vagrancy and homelessness, widespread issues that are occurring.
00:21:17.000And yet the FBI, and this is a theme we've been building out on our program, there's a term called anarcho-tyranny.
00:21:22.000We have anarchy on the streets, but tyranny towards political dissidents, right?
00:21:26.000Tyranny towards Steve Bannon, tyranny towards Dinesh D'Souza, tyranny towards Donald Trump.
00:21:30.000And I do want to ask you about that, Congressman.
00:21:53.000An official hearing right there in lower Manhattan so that we can have the victims of this crime spree that he has empowered to come forward and tell their tragic and terrible stories again so the American people can see what's happening.
00:22:05.000You know, Alvin Bragg has abused his office.
00:22:07.000I mean, he's obviously a Soros-funded political operative.
00:22:10.000He ran on his campaign platform to get Donald Trump.
00:22:14.000So they identified the defendant before there was ever even an alleged crime.
00:22:17.000And everybody knows what this is about.
00:22:19.000Even the Democrats who are honest, who will tell you quietly, they know what this is about.
00:22:24.000They've weaponized the, you know, the DA's office there as they have other Soros-funded DA's offices around the country.
00:22:31.000And they're destroying our justice system in the process, the people's faith in the system itself.
00:22:34.000So we're going to take it right to his backyard and illustrate how his priorities are so far out of whack.
00:22:39.000Obviously, he's a political operative.
00:22:41.000Obviously, he's compromised and immoral in the way he's doing all this, but there are real world consequences.
00:22:47.000He's allowing violent crime to go unprosecuted.
00:22:49.000He's downgraded over 50%, 52% of felonies have been downgraded to misdemeanors under his tenure as DA.
00:22:57.000But for Donald Trump, of course, they take a misdemeanor business records violation alleged and upgrade it to a felony with this bootstrapped crazy theory that I know you've discussed.
00:23:19.000Are there plans to subpoena Alvin Bragg himself and to go through that process?
00:23:24.000And if he ignores it, why not a contempt of Congress charge?
00:23:27.000I mean, I bet that could pass the entire House.
00:23:29.000They did that to Steve Bannon, and he now faces federal charges there.
00:23:33.000And this might sound aggressive, but we're in unprecedented times now.
00:23:37.000We are in unprecedented times, and we have to take unprecedented measures in many cases.
00:23:42.000And, you know, one of the powers that we have, one of the responsibilities we have in the oversight category is to ensure that federal funds were not misused on this abuse of his power.
00:23:52.000And we think that at least some federal forfeiture funds may have been used in this Trump charade.
00:23:58.000And so we're going to get down to the bottom of that.
00:24:03.000It may come to subpoenas and we'll have to see how that develops.
00:24:06.000But we have to use, to your point, Charlie, we have to use every tool in our arsenal to push back against this, not for a political purpose, not for a partisan reason, but because our people, the American people, are losing their faith in the system of justice.
00:24:23.000And so, look, I mean, whatever it's worth, my two cents, and I think you guys are doing a great job, is you should subpoena Bragg, have him ignore it, do contempt of Congress, send it to DOJ.
00:24:32.000They indicted Bannon for the same thing.
00:24:34.000You know, you guys go after a former president.
00:26:14.000Our challenge is to keep track of that, package it, put it in a digestible format for the American people to see.
00:26:21.000And that's a real challenge because there's so much that we're uncovering.
00:26:24.000So the request is from the people who care about liberty, care about our country and its foundations, is to, you know, hey, I'm not shameful by asking for a prayer request.
00:26:34.000You know, we need stamina and wisdom and discernment as we sift through all of this, but also get a little bit of patience.
00:26:40.000This has to be a very, by design, it has to be a very methodical, deliberative process because we have to gather the evidence like we're doing a criminal proceeding almost because we're going to need that evidence down the road.
00:26:52.000When the church style committee thing was formed back in the 70s, they had 120 hearings before they came out with reforms on the intel abuses in the Intel community.
00:27:01.000You know, we've only had five or six hearings in some of these, but there's many, many more to come, and you're going to see a lot more, you know, openly displayed for the people.
00:27:09.000I think that's a really important responsibility we have right now.
00:27:22.000We've uncovered because of whistleblowers, we have the documents.
00:27:24.000The FBI, the Richmond Field Office produced a memo and they wanted to recruit, they wanted to recruit spies, basically, inside traditional Catholic churches.
00:27:33.000They labeled traditional Catholics as potential violent extremists.
00:27:38.000No allegation of a crime, no evidence of any such thing.
00:27:41.000They're targeted because of their religious belief, their sincerely held religious belief.
00:27:44.000And you can translate that into pro-vifers, okay?
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00:29:53.000But classical liberalism can be attractive.
00:29:55.000But if you are not anchored to reality or use prudence or are able to balance liberalism with order, then you quickly get into anarchy or what the founders would call licentiousness.
00:30:12.000And it's not as if our leaders are afraid to use political power.
00:30:16.000They just don't want to use political power against criminals.
00:31:17.000Evan Gersovich, front page of the Wall Street Journal.
00:31:21.000U.S. designates Wall Street Journal reporter as wrongfully held by Russia.
00:31:28.000And kind of connected to this that we're talking about here, every single major complaint that the mainstream media routinely levels against the Russian Federation's domestic politics, not necessarily invading a country, but their domestic politics, our own government is doing.
00:31:56.000Douglas Mackey is a young man who faces a decade in prison.
00:32:01.000When Vladimir Putin puts Navalani, or Novleni, whatever his name is, in prison, they say, wow, what kind of evil person would try to put the leader of the opposition party in jail?
00:32:14.000On the same side of the token, Donald Trump gets invited by Alvin Bragg and it's perfectly defensible.
00:32:21.000Maybe the American government doesn't actually hate Russia because of his domestic politics.
00:32:32.000And maybe Putin is a thug, but then what are our leaders?
00:32:40.000For example, Steve Bannon, one of the leaders of the opposition party, is under indictment both by the Department of Justice and the state of New York.
00:32:51.000So will the U.S. designate James O'Keefe as wrongfully be investigated?
00:32:56.000What I find to be comical is our own government looks abroad and is willing to point out injustice and tyranny, but is vastly unwilling to ever say the same about our own domestic politics, even though we are acting in the same code of conduct, the same behavior that we find to be reprehensible.
00:33:41.000That's why it's wrong that we're doing it to ourselves.
00:33:46.000So Evan Gershowitz, quote, journalism is not a crime, State Department spokesman Vedit Patel said.
00:33:53.000We call for the Russian Federation to immediately release Mr. Gershevich.
00:33:58.000If journalism is not a crime, then tell me why Dinesh D'Souza, James O'Keefe, and Steve Bannon all got targeted by the Southern District of New York and or the state of New York.
00:34:08.000No, but our own government likes the virtue signal abroad while our own politics becomes actually more Soviet than the Russian Federation's politics in some sense.
00:34:25.000And so to kind of close the thought on the El Salvador story, which it all ties together, it's an unwillingness.
00:34:56.000He's bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party amongst other organizations.
00:35:01.000But it's just the people that are supposed to be caretakers, leaders, stewards of society, there is this mass indifference, kind of a shrugging of the shoulders.